By Kandia Crazy Horse December 22, 1998

Southern rock's masterworks show this century a viable southern heroism: the quest to overcome the dread of Jim Crow and the pall of ruined empire. This bittersweet, miscegenated sound enabled the Allman Brothers to sell out almost the entirety of March at the Beacon Theatre, made the reformed Lynyrd Skynyrd the hottest act of the summer concert season, and lives on in '90s bands the Black Crowes, Widespread Panic, and Gov't Mule, not to mention a fair chunk of... More >>>